The Aesop for Children, The Fox Without a Tail, sentence 4
But it was hard for him to live alone, and at last he thought of a plan that would perhaps help him out of his trouble.
Who acts: Fox, plan · What happens: be, live, think, help, trouble · To what, where: last, Fox, trouble
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox Without a Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, plan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 hard | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hard | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hard | cop |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 live | mark |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 live | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 live | mark |
| 8 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hard | csubj |
| 9 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 8 live | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 last | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 last | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 last | case |
| 13 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hard | conj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 last | acl:relcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 plan | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 plan | det |
| 18 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 help | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 help | aux |
| 21 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 22 help | advmod |
| 22 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 plan | acl:relcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 help | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 trouble | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 trouble | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 27 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 help | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | hard property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | Fox | alone property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Fox | last not said here | of a plan | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot last=Theme | |||
| 4 | help | would | a plan | Fox | Fox's trouble | perhaps property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||
| 5 | trouble | Fox | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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